Devil's Bible

Churches generally offer two types of baptisms: major and minor.

The minor baptism, known as the pilgrimage, helps people steadily advance from the extreme blackstone race to the steel race.

The Great Baptism is called the Great Sacrifice.

This effect is even more powerful, as it can help top-tier steel species advance to gold species, though it's more often used to improve the stats of gold species.

Such grand sacrifices were previously a means for the church to appease various nobles.

For nobles who wish to perpetuate their family's golden legacy, the Golden Medicine is indispensable.

And in this process, the Great Baptism is precisely the most common and effective remedy.

The golden medicine obtained from this baptism possesses sacred and divine attributes, and is associated with deities.

Generally, this is held once every thirty to fifty years for each floating whale.

The problems with the Discipline Church likely began about a century ago, so based on the timeline, the Discipline Church should have held two or three major festivals in Bikongjing.

However, for the past century, the high sacrifices of the Discipline Church have been completely suspended, and all the resources have been used to prepare for the war against the Abyss.

A few years ago, even the minor baptisms were stopped.

And now, the grand festival of the Azure Whale, which had been suspended for a hundred years, has begun to appear in Nemus's hands.

"Holy be it Nemus, may the tides of Nemus sweep away all!" Poole knelt before Nemus, chanting a prayer, his eyes fixed on Nemus with a calm yet fervent gaze.

“This is a gift to the devout!” Nemes said softly, pointing a finger at Poole’s forehead.

One after another, magic circles lit up on the ground, and a large amount of faith power flowed rapidly along with the magic circles.

These forces of faith acted as a kind of mediator in this process.

“Life, change, cause and effect…” Nemus sensed the changes in power within the magic circle.

These changes brought about a relatively pure number.

Poole stood at the center of the magic circle, his heart filled only with devout faith in Nemus.

Of all his subordinates, Poole has always been the most devout.

Phaethon's faith had a touch of madness and utilitarianism; he might be considered a fanatic, but he couldn't compare to Poole.

At this moment, this devout faith becomes the final medium of guidance.

Driven by faith, the numbers gradually converged towards Poole.

This number is primarily based on the two attributes of Divinity and Transmutation.

Especially the variable system.

This force entered Poole's body and quickly reacted with Poole's own power.

Most of Poole's original stats came from the floating whale, and he mastered the power of the 'transformed whale'.

A large part of the power of the floating whale actually belongs to the transformation type, while another part is the very rare 'thought type' and life type.

The thought system is the highest level of all mental, spiritual, psychic, cognitive, and even dream-related attributes.

However, most people rarely obtain the power of the thought system; they mostly possess the characteristics of its branches, such as the mind and cognition.

This is not surprising, since the origin of the floating whales comes from the astral plane.

The Astral Realm is a place where movement and combat are achieved purely through 'thought'.

That place is the stronghold of the thought system's abilities.

Just like the 'Source Material' power, which very few people can obtain, it can only be obtained by going to the Ether Layer.

Poole could feel the power of the Transmutation type flowing through his body, gradually merging into his essence. The power of Whale Transformation had also been greatly enhanced, although the Thought type had not yet truly solidified and materialized, with most of it converging on the Transmutation type.

This is the norm for most people.

It is difficult for the attributes of features to be perfectly matched, especially for high-end features, whose internal characteristics are very likely to come from different attributes.

This is not a good thing. A complete trait brings together a complete characteristic. At this point, adding other attribute traits would be icing on the cake.

A characteristic formed by combining a group of traits with different attributes will only appear to fall short in any aspect, and thus seem mediocre.

Sensing this, Nems chose to intervene at this point.

Special Feature – "Gift"!
Nemus usually uses fate-related powers on the artificial souls he creates, but this time, he uses them on Poole.

The characteristic of "gift" mostly involves giving a target a mission, thereby enabling the individual who has been given that mission to receive help from fate.

However, "gift" also has another use: using the power of movement to bestow different strengths upon others.

At this moment, Nemus began to manipulate the power of transformation, forming traits according to his own understanding and integrating them into Poole's body.

As his personal bodyguard, Nemus felt that Poole should possess some special strengths and characteristics, no matter what.

With the infusion of a large amount of change-type power, Poole's body gradually changed.

At this moment, the power of the magic circle also propelled more numbers into Poole's body.

The price is the rapid depletion of the fictitious faith accumulated during this period.

After a major ceremony ends, it may take several months for the depleted faith to recover.

This is because only Poole was present at this grand ceremony.

When the church holds a grand ceremony, it is usually attended by three to five people.

They mostly use gold-grade seeds to increase stats.

It's relatively rare for steel to be upgraded to gold.

Firstly, for nobles, the highest value of steel is not so easy to obtain.

Secondly, most people actually encounter negative factors such as advanced age, mixed physical conditions, and serious physical damage in the later stages of cultivation, which makes their success rate of advancement low.

Therefore, it often takes several grand sacrifices to produce a single golden seed.

For most people, seeing a golden seed is a once-in-a-lifetime event, let alone becoming one.

Poole, however, did not have much excitement at the moment. He had gone from being a reserve village guard to a golden seed in just over a year after following Nems.

He was well aware of one thing: he might have some talent, but there were too many people like him.

He was able to achieve this entirely thanks to Lord Nemus!

Therefore, Poole became increasingly convinced that he didn't need to think about anything else; the only thing he needed to do was to have faith in Lord Nemes and follow him steadfastly.

This pure faith brought comfort to Nems.

At this moment, having completed a cycle of blessing and sacrifice, his control over his divine nature has subtly increased considerably.

Meanwhile, the previously stalled divine power condensation function seems to have undergone some changes after this incident.

Perhaps before long, Nemus will be able to condense a power close to that of a god.

“Pool,” Nems said softly.

Having just completed his advancement to the Golden Seed level, Poole, before even sensing the changes in his body or the new characteristics he had condensed, was already kneeling before Nemus, awaiting Nemus's instructions. (End of Chapter)